George Catlin and his Indian GalleryRenwick Gallery
Sept. 6, 2002-Jan. 19, 2003
The most comprehensive display of the artist's work in more than a century includes more than 400 artworks from Catlin's original Indian gallery
Catalogue: 120 plates, W.W. Norton & Co., $60 hardcover
Tour: Selected works will travel in 2004 to celebrate the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, premiering at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas city, Feb. 7-Apr. 18, 2004

Exposed: The Victorian Nude
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Sept. 6, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003
Male and female nudes in painting and sculpture, photography, popular illustration, advertising and caricature, in a show that premiered at the Tate in London
Also on view: "The Dinner Party," Sept. 20, 2002-Feb. 9, 2003, Judy Chicago's iconic feminist installation

Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition
National Academy of Design Museum
Sept. 12-Dec. 8, 2002
70 paintings and other works by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929), who attempted to infuse academic studio practice with contemporary esthetic ideas, in a show organized for the Dahesh Museum of Art but presented at the National Academy while the Dahesh relocates to new quarters
Guest curator: Gabriel P. Weisberg (U. of Minnesota)
Tour: Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 3-Feb. 9, 2003

Jo Baer: "The Minimalist Years, 1960-1975"
Dia Center for the Arts
Sept. 12-June 15, 2003
20 paintings plus drawings and prints in the first U.S. museum show since 1975 of work by the Amsterdam-based New York expatriate known for hard-edge geometric abstractions confined to the sides and edges of her canvases
Funding: Lannan Foundation, Richard Florsheim Art Fund
Also on view: Gerhard Richter, "Refraction," and Jorge Pardo, "Project," opening Sept. 4

Winogrand 1964
International Center for Photography, New York
Sept. 13-Dec. 1, 2002
An extensive series of over 150 vintage photos made during a cross-country trip in the year following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, drawn from the Garry Winogrand Archive at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson (which organized the show)
Also on view: "Step Right this Way: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty," pictures of circuses and circus performers, opening Sept. 13

Facing the MaskMuseum for African Art
Sept. 19, 2002-March 2, 2003
The inaugural exhibition at the museum's new (and temporary) facility in Long Island City (located at 36-01 43rd Ave) focuses on the use of masks across several African cultures via some 70 examples plus ediucational and interactive programming
Curator: Frank Herreman
Catalogue: 64 pp., with essays by Herreman, Babatunde Lawal

The Shape of Color: Joan Miró's Painted SculptureCorcoran Gallery of Art
Sept. 21, 2002-Jan. 6, 2003
The first museum exhibition to focus on the artist's late polychrome sculpture includes major works, maquettes and drawings, and documentary photographs and films of the artist at work
Curators: Laura Coyle (Corcoran), William Jeffett (Dali Museum)
Catalogue: essay by Joan Punyet-Miro, the artist's grandson, $29.95 paper
Tour: Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Fla., Jan. 25-Apr. 7, 2003; more tba

Bill Viola: Going Forth by DayGuggenheim Museum
Sept. 21, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003
A five-part, projected digital image cycle inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead and including "Fire Birth," "The Path," "The Deluge," "The Voyage" and "First Light." The installation was originally commissioned for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Curators: John G. Hanhardt, Maria-Christina Villaseñor
Catalogue: Abrams, $45

Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews PhotographsNew-York Historical Society
Sept. 27, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003
A selection of 100 memorable photos celebrating the centenary of the oldest art magazine in the U.S., in a show organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
Catalogue: Yale University Press; essays by Peter Hamill, ARTnews publisher Milton Esterow
Funding: AXA Art Insurance Corporation